FASCINATING FACTS

ovaltine around the world

ON THE SLOPES

Professional skier, Didier Cuche drinks two cups of Ovaltine
each day. Indeed, for him, a day without Ovaltine is a day
missed!

KING RAMA

Every year the Ovaltine team in Thailand visits around 2000
schools.

Even Thailand's King Rama IX drinks Ovaltine every day.

WOW!

Every year over 3,200,000,000 mugs of Ovaltine are drunk all
around the world!

GOODNESS ME

A 400g can of the International Ovaltine formula contains the
soluble goodness of over 10,000 barley grains.

A GLOBAL BRAND

Ovaltine can be bought in over 100 countries around the
world.

over the years

1865

Malt syrup is created by the Apothecary Dr Georg Wander in his
laboratory in Bern, Switzerland during his investigation of the
nutritional qualities of Barley Malt with its complex carbohydrate
profile and naturally high vitamin content. Malt extract turned out
to be a life-saving restorative product for many small children at
the time.

1904

His son Dr Albert Wander carried on his father's work after his
death not only did he further enrich his father's formula with
milk, egg and cocoa to create the Ovomaltine brand but he was also
instrumental in the transition from a syrup to the convenient dried
powder product we enjoy today using a revolutionary vacuum oven
technology that's still in use, all-be-it on a much larger scale,
to this day.

1914

Ovaltine turns orange for the first time!

1935

The Ovaltineys make their first broadcast. The club had its own
radio show on Radio Luxembourg, sponsored by the manufacturer.

It acheived 5 million memebers in 1939. This was a time when few
people had televisions, and radio was all important as a medium,
and had huge audiences.

1948

By the time the 1948 Olympics had come to Wembley, London,
Ovaltine had been named as an official sports drink with some
25,000 cups being served up to the competitors.

1953

In 1953 Ovaltine accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on his Everest
expedition and in 1975 Ovaltine was one of the sponsers of Chris
Bonnington's Everest expedition.

1959

Since 1959, Brazilian fast food chain Bob's, the largest
competitor to McDonald's in that country, offers milkshakes and
sundaes made with Ovaltine, which became a flagship product of the
fast-food chain in Brazil.

The Brazilian Ovaltine is unline any other in the world,
originating from an assembly line malfunction that made the powder
crispier, and is still maintained today.

1962

When the Swiss national football team travelled to the World
Cup, Ovomaltine naturally travelled with them - and so stars around
the world got a taste for it - like the legendary Brazilian
footballer Pele.

1965

Ovomaltine launched as a ready-to-drink tetra pack carton in
Switzerland.

1971

Mohammed Ali tours Britain as ambassador for Ovaltine, signing
tins of Ovlatine in supermarkets and giving interviews. To see and
hear what this boxing legend had to say about Ovaltine - follow the
link.

2001

Ovomaltine Switzerland moves from Tetrapack into bottle format
with the slogan - the new Ovo-Drink is not better. But longer!

2004

Ovaltine celebrates its 100th anniversary with a look
back...

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